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JeremoudCorbynejad posted:If you've had gay sex in the last 3 months, you can't. Otherwise it's fine. I guess HIV symptoms are apparent within 3 months so it gives at-risk people a window to find out before donating? Not symptoms, no - you can be mostly asymptomatic for years, and the symptoms can be non-specific, which is part of what makes HIV so dangerous. I'd guess 3 months is enough incubation time for the infection to build up to a point that it can be detected with certainty?
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Orange Devil posted:A recurring motif in business is not understanding when to use numbers and when not to use them. A certain type of manager thinks decisions about investments and costs ought to be made "rationally", meaning by just looking at the cold hard numbers and doing whatever brings in the most money. The problem is that while costs that you are considering of incurring can generally be predicted and measured down to the last cent, you often can't do the same for expected benefits. When you can, you don't need a fancy manager to make the decision, literally any idiot can compare cost & benefit and if benefit > cost then do it, if not don't do it. I know an accountant who decided to vote Tory by working out which party would result in the highest take-home pay for him.
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Jedit posted:I don't think I've ever heard Jeffrey Epstein's name pronounced "Ep-steen". Everyone I've heard say it rhymed it with Einstein. If this genuinely is an anti-Semitic dogwhistle then this woman must have got it from her anti-Semitic friends, because I have no friends like that and it's a mystery to me. Guess we need to americanise everything from now on, just to be safe. Starting with David Badd-ill
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crispix posted:In Northern Ireland if you'd have had gay sex in the previous 12 months you're not allowed to give blood for the next 12. In Australia, we just ban anyone who lived in the UK between 1980-96 from giving blood outright. We know you've all got Mad Cow!
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Guavanaut posted:It's a year. Even if you're married to another man and monogamous. I think they changed it. Blood.co.uk says 3 months. Bizarrely you can donate if you're a sex worker, after 3 months, but if you've had sex with a sex-worker (or someone who's ever been one) you're banned for life  The rules are a hot mess.
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Doccykins posted:chalk up another conservative candidate suspension Typical labour antisemitism
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Got some bumph from my Labour candidate. Going to vote for him anyway, obviously, but this photo from it has a real Mortal Kombat 2 vibe. "Toast-yyyyy!" (gently caress it, because why not, even though I should be working:) 
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Payndz posted:Got some bumph from my Labour candidate. Going to vote for him anyway, obviously, but this photo from it has a real Mortal Kombat 2 vibe. I'm so glad you posted the shop because I'd forgotten about that and couldn't figure out what you meant
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goddamnedtwisto posted:Not symptoms, no - you can be mostly asymptomatic for years, and the symptoms can be non-specific, which is part of what makes HIV so dangerous. I'd guess 3 months is enough incubation time for the infection to build up to a point that it can be detected with certainty? JeremoudCorbynejad posted:I think they changed it. Blood.co.uk says 3 months. quote:pre-2011 – men who have sex with men were not able to give blood It also looks like they've very recently completely reversed the sex work rule. It used to be if you have ever received money or drugs for sex then you're banned for life, but if you gave money or drugs for sex it's a three month wait. Now it's quote:You are working as a sex worker. You may be accepted for donation if it is longer than 3 months since you last received money or drugs for sex That's bizarre, but at least it's a positive step towards the FAIR individualized treatment guidelines.  lol at the wording quote:You have ever injected, or been injected with, drugs; even a long time ago or only once. This includes body-building drugs and injectable tanning agents. You may be able to give if a doctor prescribed the drugs. Please check with us to make sure
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quick request an israeli colleague keeps telling me he can’t support labour because corbyn is antisemetic and mentions this one video clip where corbyn says “our friends in hamas and hezbollah” does anyone have a decent resource for explaining the context of this in a response to the antisemitism claims? it’s very frustrating
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bump_fn posted:quick request an israeli colleague keeps telling me he can’t support labour because corbyn is antisemetic and mentions this one video clip where corbyn says “our friends in hamas and hezbollah” does anyone have a decent resource for explaining the context of this in a response to the antisemitism claims? it’s very frustrating How about "its basic diplomacy". It was in the context of a meeting between multiple politicians and Palestinian representatives, and at the time IIRC there had been a fairly recent Palestinian election to confirm Hama's as government
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bump_fn posted:quick request an israeli colleague keeps telling me he can’t support labour because corbyn is antisemetic and mentions this one video clip where corbyn says “our friends in hamas and hezbollah” does anyone have a decent resource for explaining the context of this in a response to the antisemitism claims? it’s very frustrating It was a conference about peace in the middle east and you don't start building bridges between hostile factions by calling one side a group of awful terrorists, you treat both as friends.
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bump_fn posted:quick request an israeli colleague keeps telling me he can’t support labour because corbyn is antisemetic and mentions this one video clip where corbyn says “our friends in hamas and hezbollah” does anyone have a decent resource for explaining the context of this in a response to the antisemitism claims? it’s very frustrating He used it the same way one would in court, referring to the opposition legal team as 'my learned friend' even if you think they're all twats.
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bump_fn posted:quick request an israeli colleague keeps telling me he can’t support labour because corbyn is antisemetic and mentions this one video clip where corbyn says “our friends in hamas and hezbollah” does anyone have a decent resource for explaining the context of this in a response to the antisemitism claims? it’s very frustrating You can't engage in peace talks if you don't approach both sides with trust and goodwill, does he think that describing them as 'those terrorist bastards' is going to get anything at all done?
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bump_fn posted:quick request an israeli colleague keeps telling me he can’t support labour because corbyn is antisemetic and mentions this one video clip where corbyn says “our friends in hamas and hezbollah” does anyone have a decent resource for explaining the context of this in a response to the antisemitism claims? it’s very frustrating It was a peace talk where he did the friendly "and here we have our friends from .."
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Nov 20, 2019 13:50
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Doccykins posted:chalk up another conservative candidate suspension Isn't this two Tory candidates in two days who've been suspended for anti-Semitism?
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Nov 20, 2019 13:54
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Guess I'm not voting for Labour. Not because I don't want to, more because I've just been in contact with my council's election office and they've hosed up my application to vote from abroad. They're telling me that merely registering as an overseas voter doesn't mean I get to vote from overseas, and that I should take my polling card (that they sent to my house in holland) and book myself a plane and vote in person. Their reasoning? That being an overseas voter doesn't mean you're a postal voter, and so won't get sent a voting pack. You have to apply for that separately, according to them, and they say they've already been printed off.
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As a rational, self interested lolbertatrian I donate blood on the reg because... - It keeps my undiagnosed haemochromatosis in check - It's 850 calories a pop, that's almost a pound of fat a year! - I get the warm, satisfying glow of knowing that I haven't somehow caught hepatitis in the past three months Also I guess it helps the lives of poor people who can't afford their own butler/blood chattel. ... I wonder if there's actually any political will around to change the donor regulations from the current 70s setup. Obviously doesn't account for trans people very well at the moment. Oh and people should really read up on haemochromatosis by the way. It's surprisingly unknown. quote:Haemochromatosis is an inherited condition in which iron levels in the body slowly build up over many years.
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they need rules for blood donors ofc but yeah they should also be clear and scientifically rigorous, these seem...not that
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TheRat posted:It was a peace talk where he did the friendly "and here we have our friends from .." gh0stpinballa posted:they need rules for blood donors ofc but yeah they should also be clear and scientifically rigorous, these seem...not that Good work all the social media comments about "why should a call girl who used protection and quit 20 years ago be banned for life but a john who doesn't only has to wait three months?" on blood drive ads (and the FAIR committee too I guess  ).No see I have a very unusual condition where I forget all the times I solicited sex from a minor, due to a serotonin surge when an Argentine captain hijacked my radio signal to call me a nonce, here are a list of the times I ate at Nando's, I have the extra hot butterfly chicken and the spicy rice and sometimes some mash and I've never solicited sex from a minor at Nando's that I recall.
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bump_fn posted:quick request an israeli colleague keeps telling me he can’t support labour because corbyn is antisemetic and mentions this one video clip where corbyn says “our friends in hamas and hezbollah” does anyone have a decent resource for explaining the context of this in a response to the antisemitism claims? it’s very frustrating Just to add to the other replies btw: It is NOT anti-Semitic to criticise the actions of a government whose official religion happens to be Judaism. Saying "Israel are wrong to brutally murder people with US provided military weaponry" is as anti-Semitic as saying "Tony Blair was wrong to brutally murder people with US/UK provided military weaponry" is anti-Christian.
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Took me a while to see the problem because coffee is a soup.
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Bundy posted:Just to add to the other replies btw: I got a 30 day ban from /r/ukpolitics for saying Israel was a nazi state. Apparently that was extremely anti-Semitic.
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Bundy posted:Just to add to the other replies btw: Which I guess fulfills the strict definition of "be like Steve Biko and Nelson Mandela" 
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HorseLord posted:Guess I'm not voting for Labour. Can't you nominate a proxy voter?
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namesake posted:Took me a while to see the problem because coffee is a soup. https://twitter.com/MarkDiStef/status/1196891905377873925
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Tesseraction posted:Can't you nominate a proxy voter? You should be able to get an emergancy proxy vote right up to the day of the election. https://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/i-am-a/voter/voting-person-post-or-proxy/voting-proxy
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HorseLord posted:Guess I'm not voting for Labour. whoever told you that is wrong, the deadline for applying to vote by post is November 26th https://www.gov.uk/voting-when-abroad
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 Really desperate stuff, this https://twitter.com/Rsavage6/status/1197057356913356800?s=19
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JeremoudCorbynejad posted:If you've had gay sex in the last 3 months, you can't. Otherwise it's fine. I guess HIV symptoms are apparent within 3 months so it gives at-risk people a window to find out before donating? The antibodies that they test for in your blood do not become detectable until after 3 months (to a reliability of 99.99%) although modern 4th generation testing kits have a 95% or so detection rate after 4 weeks. If you test negative after 8 weeks it's ridiculously unlikely that you will test positive after 12 but the gold standard is seen as 12. Most people do not have significant symptoms other than what you may shrug off as a cold and can live that way for multiple years without realizing. It's possible to live a healthy life as HIV positive for several years until serious complications come about but the longer you are not treated the more your quality of life will be compromised. deletebeepbeepbeep fucked around with this message at 14:20 on Nov 20, 2019 |
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This is good for Jeremy Corbyn https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/election-debate-jeremy-corbyn-won-lost-boris-johnson-poll-brexit-yougov-a9210571.html
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This is bad for Corbyn...wait https://twitter.com/kevin_larkin/status/1197123256391745537
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This stuff is honestly blowing my mind. I read much more news than I listen to, and I don't watch any, and I've been pronouncing it all this time like Einstein. I really think he was uncertain because it sounded to me like he stumbled over the pronunciation when he said it.
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So does that mean I have been mispronouncing Einstein, Frankenstein and beer stein?
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VideoGames posted:So does that mean I have been mispronouncing Einstein, Frankenstein and beer stein? calling Frankenstein a monster is not just incorrect because he was the scientist, but is also anti-Semitic
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Tesseraction posted:calling Frankenstein a monster is not just incorrect because he was the scientist, but is also anti-Semitic Frankenstein was the monster, not the innocent life he brought into the world. 
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